A veiled Hezbollah supporters ties a banner on her friend's forehead, that reads in Arabic, 'at your service God's prophet', during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men read the Tashlich prayer on the beach in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv as they celebrate Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year festival, during which observant Jews traditionally go to a flowing body of water to symbolically throw away their sins. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

A policeman holds an Occupy Wall Street activist after she was arrested while marching through the financial district in Lower Manhattan on the one-year anniversary of the movement in New York. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

Paul King, stepson of Ian Tomlinson, and his widow Julia Tomlinson, speak to members of the media after leaving a Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing for police officer Simon Harwood. Harwood, who pushed and struck Tomlinson who died shortly afterwards during protests at the G20 summit in 2009, was dismissed for gross misconduct. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters

A bit more than he can carry for this Cambodian vendor as he transports household goods on his motorbike for selling through a village of Samroang Andet at the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photograph: Heng Sinith/AP

Police forensic experts at a disused flat in Castlederg, Co Tyrone in relation to the disappearance of Arlene Arkinson, 15, who disappeared 18 years ago. Police said they were not looking for human remains but a forensic team was called in after serious crime branch detectives got new information. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA

A digger makes adjustments to a levee at the eastern end of Wallasea Island near Rochford, England. The Crossrail railway tunnel project in London has started to deliver 4.5 million tonnes of soil from its construction to Wallasea Island in the Thames estuary. This will allow Wallasea Island to be transformed from levee-protected farmland into a thriving wetland, twice the size of the City of London. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Dramatic skies over Acropolis hill with the Parthenon temple, in Athens as Greece's government tries to finalise an 11.5bn euro austerity package required for continued emergency rescue loans. Unions are angry at the new cuts and have called a general strike. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

Politician Julius Malema is escorted by police after he was barred from addressing around 2,000 striking workers at the strife-torn Lonmin Marikana mining plant, South Africa. The strike is entering its fifth week and has spread to the gold and chrome sectors. Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images

Young Kashmiri Muslims see off their relatives leaving for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, in Srinagar, India. The first batch of 279 Kashmiri Muslims left for the annual trip to Mecca to participate in the Hajj. Photograph: Mukhtar Khan/AP

Don't worry they aren't real pandas. Performers in panda costumes sit with student Anna Zairseva in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland to highlight the launch of a search for a group of Panda Ambassadors to win the chance to visit Chengdu Panda Base in China and work on a conservation project. Photograph: Sandy Young/PA

A rare image of daily life in Syria. Teacher Abu al-Fattah gestures while delivering a lesson at an improvised school in the town of Azaz, on the border with Turkey. Over 2,000 Syrian schools have been damaged or destroyed and hundreds more are being used as shelters since the conflict began. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Occupy protesters are arrested by NYPD officers while attempting to block Wall Street. Today is the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street and protesters are planning various actions and events throughout the day. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Large aperture. A woman looks out of from the stand of Carl Zeiss on the press day of the world's largest fair for imaging. More than 1,200 exhibitors from 45 countries will show their latest products at the Photokina 2012. Photograph: Ina Fassbender/Reuters

Journalists work during a news conference by German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Merkel said that she hoped closer political co-ordination and greater accountability within the euro zone would be agreed by the end of the year. Photograph: Fabrizio BENSCH/REUTERS

An unusual sight for the Monday morning commute as Spanish riot police stand guard to prevent picketers from entering the railway platforms during a strike at Atocha station in Madrid. Spanish rail workers began a one day-strike to protest against the privatisation of the rail sector as part of austerity measures. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters

A police official talks on his mobile phone while standing amid the damaged wagons of a passenger train after it collided with another in Karachi, leaving one person dead and many injured. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

A Chinese policeman emerges from a closed Japanese restaurant covered with Chinese national flags and banners saying 'it is Chinese-owned' as anti-Japanese protests continued outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing over the Senkaku islands. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

Pakistanis burn an effigy of US president Barak Obama during a protest against an anti-Islam film. The Pakistani parliament passed a resolution on condemning an anti-Islamic video and urged the US to take appropriate action. Photograph: Akhter Gulfam/EPA

In a swirl of movement, dancers from the Australian Ballet perform a new traditional production of Swan Lake in Melbourne. The new production celebrates the ballet company's 50th birthday. Photograph: Caroline Pankert/AFP/Getty Images

They've met the local, now they are on a traditional canoe during a visit to Tuvanipupu Island. The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William are followed by locals dressed as sharks. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

German chancellor Angela Merkel is surrounded by photographers and cameramen as she arrives to give a press conference on her government's current national and international policy. Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images

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Jennifer Vass of Hungary leads with her horse Cordoba during the National Gallop, the biggest Hungarian equestrian festival, in Budapest. Vass won the race. Photograph: Attila Volgyi/Xinhua Press/Corbis

UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie continues her regional tour in Baghdad, Iraq. On the fourth leg of a trip to support UNHCR's regional response to the Syrian refugee situation, Jolie spent the day visiting an area home to families previously displaced by the conflict in Iraq and now returning due to conflict in Syria. Photograph: UNHCR/Jason Tanner/EPA

Even Philip Treacy looks amused at Lady Gaga's hat as they watch rehearsals ahead of the Philip Treacy fashion show last night during London Fashion Week held at the Royal Courts of Justice. Photograph: Nick Harvey/Getty Images

Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge talk to girls during the opening ceremony of the renovated Commonwealth Street in central Honiara, Solomon Islands. The royal couple are on their third stop of a nine-day tour of south-east Asia and the South Pacific on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II to commemorate her Diamond Jubilee. Photograph: Daniel Munoz/APWearing flowers in her hair, Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, smiles to locals as she departs the cultural village in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Photograph: Daniel Munoz/Reuters

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka signs the Soyuz capsule after the landing near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan on return from the International Space Station. Photograph: Shamil Zhumatov/AFP/Getty Images

Demonstrations are continuing today as these Afghan protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in Kabul. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Afghan capital on Monday, setting fire to cars and shouting 'death to America' Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand near a burning police van during a protest rally organised by Pakistani Shiite Muslims against a US-produced film mocking Islam. At least eight people were injured over night after protesters denouncing the film clashed with police outside the US consulate. Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images